Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Instead of Simply Winning the Game # 1-WTM- CKEA

From my game Takchess-MBuggins, I'm eyeing a future potential mate on H7. I should play g5 since this is a line clearance that allows for my queen to support the Rxh4. The Bishop can't take due to QXh7 mate. It would proceed QXpawn then rook takes Bishop.

Or I could of simply took the bishop, queen takes than Rh1 winning a queen for a bishop and a rook. Queen is pinned to the h7 square.

I played Rh1 ?! here.

Interesting enough I was very aware of the potential mate but didn't noodle out how to properly capitalize on it.

The CKEA refers to I played a Caro-Kann line called the Euwe Attack. This is sort of a Reti Gambit against the CK .

Hopefully, I become a little more proficient so I see fewer "Instead of Simply Winning the Game" annotations from Fritz.

The lesson here for me is to take some extra time when I have a strong threat and determine how to capitalize on it.

2 comments:

Nice to see you are still going strong. Hopefully you had a good tournament.

So to answer your question: Yes and Yes.

I put down the chessboard for two years and am now getting back to it so there is an laziness and rustiness that goes with that. Also I do have occurence blindness at times with pinned pieces and calculating that they can defend when they cannot.

The other day I had a nice mating net going in a Kings Gambit Game @playchess.com. I ended up trading a piece since I thought a pinned piece was defending a square that it did not.

I look to do a simalar thing that you are doing look at where I went wrong in games.

About Me

There exists an extremely large group of chess players who are no longer beginners nor, on the other hand, masters or point hunters, but players who aim primarily at deriving an aesthetic satisfaction from the game. For such players an attacking game is more attractive than positional technique and they will continue to attack regardless of risk., for their stormy contest are not going to be noted down in theoretical textbooks.
From the introduction to Art of Attack in Chess :Vukovic